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In the last two years, there has been a lot of talk about "cloud native" in the telecom industry. Vendors have been competing about cloud-native messaging and Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have requested cloud-native stories from vendors as part of their procurement processes. At the same time, there has been a great level of uncertainty regarding definitions, implementation details, and operational changes beyond high-level buzz words such as microservices, containers, and stateless design.

Most telecom operators are still structured to support siloed physical network functions. They are not prepared for VNF's agile business model in which new services are launched rapidly. What are the considerations you need to do that, although they are beyond the basic tasks of migrating subscribers from PNFs to VNFs, are critical to the success of a migration?